Constantine Akropolites was the son of the scholar and statesman
George Akropolites and became a minister of the
Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, until the Emperor dismissed him for his opposition to the union of churches created by the
Second Council of Lyon (1272). Under the new emperor
Andronikos II, however, Akropolites returned to favor; perhaps as early as 1282 he was appointed
Logothete, and on the death of
Theodore Mouzalon in 1294, Akropolites was raised to the title of
megas logothetes, which he held perhaps as late as 1321. He died sometime before August 1324, for a document dated May–August 1324, concerning the Monastery of the Anastasis, states he is dead. Constantine married Maria Komnene Tornikina, and they had two daughters. Their daughter Theodora married the general
Alexios Philanthropenos. Their daughter
Akropolitissa married Emperor
Michael of Trebizond. ==Work==